GIF Brewery 3 by Gfycat for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By S K Y E F L U X

  Bugs, missing essential buttons

  The final output can be good, with relentless tweaking and resets. Bugs and missing essentials make this a pain to use. No way to remove individual frames (no - key for the actual editor). You can add frames, duplicate them, generate more to infinity, but it's impossible to remove any of them from the 'saved' list. 1 bad click and you must start over from scratch. Same with slices, there's a key to add slices, but no way to remove them. Importing is a convoluted mess of converting gifs to mp4 using the media stitcher then back to the editor to convert the mp4 BACK to a gif (surprisingly their media stitcher LETS you remove frames, why not the actual editor!?)... but then their gif editor interpolates the timing from the mp4 and changes the frame count all over again. So then back to manually selecting frames, this time in the editor, updating custom timing for every frame, and hoping you haven't accidentally added a bad/unwanted frame, otherwise you have to start over again. Feels like an unfinished work in progress. This needs a very basic way of inserting and deleting individual frames, like, literally that's what an animated gif is, yet this program makes it a terribly convoluted process.

  
  
• By spacesuitdiver

  Almost perfect.

  I use this daily to record screencasts during my development. The only thing that kinda stinks is it crashes if you try to record another video while you are saving.

  
  
• By Elvis Ripley

  Best and Most Powerful way to make GIFs

  I am a video editor and occationally clients was GIFs of shots or sections to share. GIF Brewery is easy to just stick in a video clip and get something quick but it is also the most powerful to tweak settings and fine tune. The biggest problem with GIFs is they get huge fast and the way to shrink them is resize the video or reduce the colors used. GIF Brewery has a great way to step down the colors used one by one until the size and quality trade offs are acceptable. The only problem is the time it takes to make the GIFs. Some parts of the creation process are multi threaded but some parts are not. If you are trying to optimize and going through the creation process over and over that part kind of drags. The creation of the GIF maxes out my Windows but the color checking phase runs at 1/8 of max.

  
  
• By Utility68

  Wowzers

  I HATE writing reviews but this surprised me so much that I felt obligated. I’m not gretaly experienced making GIF’s, but I’ve made about 20 in my life, so not a total amateur—always used Gifski (also free Windows app) and was pleased with it. Didn’t know there were SO many more capabilities…and in a FREE APP!?!?! I’ve only made 3 GIFs and a video in the 12 hours or so since I downloaded GIF Brewery 3 but I’m BLOWN AWAY by its capabilities and options. If I can think it, I can do it. I just can’t say enough how this exceeded my expectations. No crashes or problems in my short experience with it. Using PC mid-2012 with 8RAM and SSD hard drive. Brilliant.

  
  

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